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During COVID, developers were among the highest comped individuals in US, could work from home, could work flexible hours. So concretely, what more could they

• Chinjut 1y ago
  What does it mean to "abuse" compensation?
  • const_cast 1y ago
    There's this strange belief that work (labor) isn't like other types of goods and that a good pay should result in above-and-beyond performance. Rather than that pay simply just being the cost of labor. When eggs went up from 4 dollars to 8, nobody expected them to taste twice as good. That's just what they cost now. But when developers go from 80,000 to 160,000 on average or something (arbitrary numbers), people do expect them to work twice as hard. Otherwise, they're abusing their employer. As if employers even could be abused.
  • izacus 1y ago
    People ran their own businesses or worked multiple jobs in time they were paid for by the employer. As in - took the money and didn't do the job.